17
Jul
2018
Video Post: A 1992 Hearing on Copyright in Legal Compilations
One interesting thing about case reporters is that even though the text of reported cases themselves been denied copyright protection by the... Read More
9
Jul
2018
Robert Fulton’s 1811 Steamboat Patent – Lost and Found
Robert Fulton is generally remembered as the inventor of the steamboat. There is some controversy over his debts to previous inventors, but... Read More
3
Jul
2018
All the Forgotten IP Cases, Where Do they All Come From…
Two years ago last month, I was reading the trial court opinion from White-Smith v. Apollo from 1905 (the player piano case),... Read More
6
Jun
2018
Video Post: Waldo Moore on the History of the Copyright Office
Below is a video recorded at the U.S. Copyright Office in early 1987, at an event for staff, where Waldo Moore, who... Read More
4
Jun
2018
Of Sheep and Goats: A Condensed History of Common-Law Copyright for Sound Recordings
“Some sheep are being treated like goats and the resulting mélange can satisfy no one except those who happen to profit from... Read More
1
May
2018
Video Post: A Demonstration of The World Wide Web from Early 1994
When I was at the Copyright Office as Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence, I happened to find the video below. Andy... Read More